arXiv Machine Learning

Holographic Memory for Zero-Shot Compositional Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs: A Mechanistic Study of Where and Why It Fails

arXiv:2606. 24948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models predict single-hop links well but have no mechanism for zero-shot compositional queries: multi-hop questions whose relation chains never appeared during training.

arXiv AI
Sep 24

Meet, Compare, or Abstain: LatWeave for Deterministic Multi-Hop Question Answering on Knowledge Lattices

LatWeave is a deterministic multi‑hop question‑answering framework that structures knowledge into a multidimensional lattice and reduces QA to three operators—meet, compare, and abstain—while limiting LLM use to extraction and planning. It achieves near‑lossless performance on complete knowledge benchmarks (e.g., MetaQA) and strong results on templated multi‑hop datasets (e.g., 2WikiMultihopQA), while transparently handling incomplete knowledge through abstention. The approach offers reproducible, auditable answer paths with no performance penalty within its operating envelope.

By Yuze Ren, Shaoheng Fan, Tao Wang, Yabo Yan, Han Han
arXiv AI
Sep 18

Faithful, Not Corrective: Model Capability Governs Message-Format Effects in Multi-Hop Agent Relays

The study investigates how different message formats affect the fidelity of information as it passes through multiple LLM agent relays. Using a controlled testbed, the authors encode twelve atomic facts in five formats (free natural language, precision‑instructed NL, JSON, triples, key‑value) across six hops and evaluate recall against programmatic ground truth. Results show that strong relays maintain near‑lossless recall for all formats, while weaker relays exhibit significant format‑dependent recall loss, and that any injected error is faithfully propagated across all formats without causing collateral damage.

By Sicheng Zeng
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

You Only Pass Once: Answering and Abstaining Together in a Single Forward Pass of a Frozen Language Model

arXiv:2608. 14465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A frozen language model on reasoning tasks has two coupled weaknesses: it under-uses evidence its own residual stream already encodes, and it fails to detect when the input is insufficient to answer, so it confabulates.

By Ziyang Luo, Zhongyao Chu, Xinjie He, Youting Wang, Xukui Qin, Runxiong Wu, Yan-Syuan Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Improving Few-Step Language Flows with Untied Self-Conditioning

The paper introduces Untied Self-Conditioning, a sampler that corrects a train–inference mismatch in flow‑matching language models. By dampening redundant directions in the self‑conditioning input and approximating a step‑average prediction from history, the method improves generation quality without retraining. On LangFlow and ELF‑B datasets, it dramatically lowers perplexity and is preferred in the majority of pairwise comparisons.

By Bocheng Li, Linli Xu